This week’s strike by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) began on Monday, saw trade union members barricading hospital entrances, burning tyres and intimidating working staff members
Health workers affiliated to Nehawu block entrances to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital earlier this week.Apungent smell filled ward 18 at Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus, south of Boksburg, as nurses said there were allegedly two dead people who had been left unattended as a result of this week’s strike by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union .
"Those who were already inside told me there were two corpses in a ward, which had not been removed because there were no porters to wheel them to the mortuary. I can’t say whether they died as the result of the strike. I don’t know,” she said. Meanwhile, a 25-year-old patient said she had gone to the hospital on Monday to fetch her chronic medication, but had been turned away at the gate.I struggled to sleep on Wednesday night because I needed painkillers and, unfortunately, we can’t afford to buy medication at a pharmacy.
According to the provincial health department, Thelle Mogoarane was one of four hospitals in Gauteng that had been totally shut down by the strike. Delihlazo said in numerous facilities, many patients haven’t been fed since Monday night and they also haven’t been given their medication.Corpses are piling up in the wards because there are no staff such as porters to take them to the mortuaries. Patients who’re due for emergency transfers are stuck because ambulance drivers aren’t allowed in or out of facilities.
“Government’s to blame for this chaos because it’s been dragging its feet and not resolving the impasse over salary negotiations.”
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